...Famous Thinkers Paper PHL/458 11/4/2013 Famous Thinkers Two famous thinkers are Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and William “Bill” Gates. I admire these two famous thinkers for the impact and influence they both have had on society. These two famous thinkers have contributed and positively affected many lives past and present. Both famous thinkers had to overcome hardships and use their creative minds to deal with challenges, obstacles, and issues. These two have changed and created their own history and legacy, which will be written in history books for the world to see. Contributions to Society Born Michael King Jr. in 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the most recognized civil rights leader in history. His father was Baptist minister and raised him to follow in his footsteps as a minister as well. During the civil rights movement Dr. King headed a crusade to help Americans to gain the same human rights, despite their origin or skin color. Dr. King had numerous contributions to society and is remembered for his non-violent movement. Dr. King was honored most for his heroic civil rights activism in the United States as well as a prophet of peace and justice in a world torn by Vietnam. Dr. King led the fight in 1956 to desegregate the bus lines in Montgomery, Alabama. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference appointed him the head position, which was to create racial equality throughout the country using non- violence. Dr. King was most famous...
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...4/19/16 Bill Gates & the Success of Microsoft An entrepreneur is a risk-taker, someone who takes chances to pursue a goal. Entrepreneurs must understand what consumers want and must create a product that drives these consumers towards making a purchase. Understanding the patterns of an economy is a rather difficult task to handle, and only a select few are about to flourish with the way the economy functions. Either an entrepreneur will risk everything and fail, or they will manage to overcome the odds and create a project that could change the face of our economy. Many entrepreneurs fail to make a product successful and hardly any is as recognizable as the creator of Microsoft, Bill Gates. Bill (William) Gates was born on October, 28th, 1955 in Seattle, Washington to an upper- middle-class couple. Gates was the second of three children. Gates developed an early interest in computers and computer software after his parents enrolled him in a private school known as the Lakeside school (Foley). While at Lakeside, Gates met his eventual business partner, Paul Allen. Gates, 15 years old at the time, and Paul, who was two years older, proved their enthusiasm for computers by creating a software system known as “Traf-o-Data.” The objective of this system was to track traffic patterns throughout the city of Seattle. “Traf-o-Data” brought in $20,000 for the two young entrepreneurs (Editors). The system did not become the most popular software program out there, but it did spark...
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...Movie Review for The Social Network (Project in CS Fundamentals) Movie Review for The Social Network * Name of the film The Social Network * Prominent Actors Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker Armie Hammer as Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss * Plot Summary In October 2003, Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg has the idea to create a website to rate the attractiveness of female Harvard undergraduates after his girlfriend Erica Albright breaks up with him. Over the course of a single night, Mark hacks into the databases of various residence halls, downloads pictures and names of female students and, using an algorithm for ranking chess players supplied by his best friend Eduardo Saverin, he creates in a few hours a website called "FaceMash.com", where male students can interactively choose which of two girls presented at a time is more attractive. Mark is punished with six months of academic probation after the traffic to the site brings down parts of Harvard's computer network, and he becomes vilified among most of Harvard's female community. However, the popularity of "FaceMash" and the fact that he created it in one night, while drunk, brings him to the attention of Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, identical twins and members of Harvard's rowing team, and their business partner Divya Narendra. As a result, he gains a job working for the Winklevoss twins as the...
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...Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey are two very successful people. They each have brought the world joy through entertainment. They both have mentored many on how to become successful and how to give back to the less fortunate along the way. However, the styles they use to give back are completely different. This paper aims to show you those similarities and differences from the beginning of their success to now, and how that success is defined by the two of them. Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates have both shattered the barriers of success. Their backgrounds influenced their motivation in becoming successful; and more importantly, they are using their success to help others. I. Using Success To Combat Inequities: Bill Gates A. Learning Outside Your Bubble B. I Challenge You To Change The World C. Using Your Success To Give Back II. Using Success To Combat Inequities: Oprah Winfrey A. Learning Outside Your Bubble B. I Challenge You To Change The World C. Using Your Success To Give Back Anyone who has touched a computer has been touched by the presence of Bill Gates. He would like to touch just as many lives in his quest to rid the world of inequities. Although Bill Gates attended Harvard, he learned his largest lesson after he was gone. He had no idea that educational opportunities were lacking for millions here in the United States, or other despairs around the world. He and his wife personally took on these challenges to figure out how to change our ever growing...
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...Bill Gates – The Mind of Microsoft By Christina Jones Could you imagine what it would like not having Microsoft Word to type up your important documents? Gates is not only a genius, but he is also a modernizer in education, technology, and philanthropy. Bill Gates, A business magnate and chairman of Microsoft has impacted American culture by developing the most popular computer system called Microsoft Office. William H. Gates, III was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. Bill was the second of three children from William H. Gates II, a prominent Seattle lawyer, and Mary Gates, who worked as a teacher before she had kids. Bill had an older sister, Kristi, and a younger sister, Libby. Growing up, Bill Gates’ nickname was Trey. This nickname was indicative of the III after his name. He always loved reading the World Book Encyclopedia from start to finish. By the age of 13, his parents believed he was not being challenged in his public school and decided enrolled him into Lakeside School. He was a remarkably gifted scholar who did well in all subjects but showed a special ability for mathematics. Lakeside school purchased time on one of these computers that the students could use. Bill found the computer intriguing. The school developed a computer terminal and young Bill Gates was instantly spellbound. Bill Gates has always been a very confident person, confident about his vision towards innovation of technology for the future. Bill Gates states that” if one...
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...Midterm Leadership, Ethics & Decision Making Case Study 2 (Pages 2 – 4) Case Study 3 (Pages 5 – 7) Case Study 6 (Pages 8 – 10) By: Alexandra Janicek Case Study 2 – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Page 63 Q1: What do you think Bill and Melinda Gates’s personality traits are for each of the Big Five dimensions? Compare the two. When considering the Big Five dimensions, which include traits of surgency, agreeableness, adjustment, conscientiousness and openness, both Bill and Melinda share some of these traits. I believe both Bill and Melinda exhibit traits of agreeableness. The agreeable personality dimension includes having enjoyable social relationships, and displaying sensitivity towards other’s needs. Another huge aspect of agreeableness is having a high emotional intelligence. What makes up emotional intelligence is self-awareness, social awareness, self-management and relationship management. Bill and Melinda focus their time working towards helping all people to lead healthy, productive lives throughout the world. With centers in the United States, India, China and the UK, they have donated $24.81 billion dollars. This is an example of sensitivity – “Sensitivity means not focusing on putting yourself first and remembering that the more you help others, the more you get in return.” (Pg. 38). Their sensitivity towards others needs also ties into their emotional intelligence, more specifically, their social awareness. Empathy...
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...Bill Gates is a great, unique, and successful individual who has come really far in life and is currently retired after, so many years building up his incorporation to what he wanted it to be. He is known to be the founder/CEO of Microsoft Incorporation which has become a huge success to this day and continues to strive and become bigger as the days pass. It earned itself the title of being the world's most largest PC software company and also has become the main rival of Apple Inc. However, this is not the only thing Bill Gates has become famous for, but also for being the most wealthiest man alive making billions with ease as his incorporation is still running and whatever it receives he gets. He doesn't spend all this money on himself; however,...
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...pick only two famous thinkers, the two that stand out in my mind are Bill Gates and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Here we will look back and discuss their contributions to society as a whole, the problems or issues that they resolved, and how they were able to come up with their solutions. Contributions to Society Self made multi-billionaire, entrepreneur and philanthropist Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington in 1955. Everyone in America recognizes the name Bill Gates; it is hard not to be famous when you are the richest self-made man in America. The contributions to society made by Mr. Gates are numerous, but most notable and arguably his best is his company Microsoft, the world’s largest software production company. From a small, no name company formed in 1975 Bill Gates worked countless hours and in no time was able to bring his company to a multi-billion dollar corporation. Eventually, Bill Gates knew that his money and his wife could help the rest of society as his mother had done as a civic leader. In the year 2000, Bill and his wife Melinda formed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation’s primary goal was to further the support of education and health in low-income communities around the country. In 2006, he stepped down from full time at Microsoft to dedicate more time to the foundation. Bill Gates and his wife have donated $28 billion dollars to charity to support their cause (Bill Gates, 2012). Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in...
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...my project on them because I am a big fan of them and I have brought a lot of their products over the years. The research that I will be doing for this project will consist of secondary research. Secondary research is research through the internet and it can also consist of reading an academic article or reading a newspaper article the main aims for this project is the find out as much information on the company as possible. Executive summary This project I will go through the organisation profile of Microsoft and the 7 different areas that it is broken up into. I will be also doing a management profile on Bill Gates founder and former CAO of Microsoft. I will talk about what he did a t Microsoft and what made him a great leader. I will also do a micro and macro analysis of Microsoft. Then I will talk about what management theory practices they use and how they implement them The finally I will do my conclusion to this project and give the...
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...circumstances surrounding them. With different presidents, different rules and regulations, even with different life expectancies. However, all men had one dream, to make America a better place. From oil pipelines to windows operating systems, these men truly did create things that changed the lives of all Americans for the better. They are the unspoken heroes. Not of war or battle, but of ingenuity, hard work and of sound mind. These are America’s Wealthy. Findings John D Rockefeller was born on July 8, 1836. He began with humble beginnings and is a perfect definition of a rags to riches dream that many Americans that try to live by. His life at home was somewhat shaky. His father was never at home very much because he was a traveling salesmen who sold elixirs. In his early teens his family moved to a suburb of Cleveland, there he took a 10 week business course that would help him later in his life as the richest man in America. His first job was with a bookkeeper at a commission firm. He excelled at keeping track of transportation cost. His first salary was $50, but he wanted more much more, he said that he wanted to make $100,000 and live for 100 years. Rockefeller opened his first oil refinery in 1870, and called it the world renowned Standard Oil Company. He eventually started a monopoly that cut out the middle man by having it sent on rail cars and wagons that took it to the local markets, this cut...
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...Abstract Bob Cringely puts PC big shots and nerds on the spot, and tells their incredible true stories from his own Silicon Valley garage. Bob speaks about the emergence of the Personal Computer (PC), stimulating the “PC Revolution”. And it was all started by nerds. It happened more or less by accident; the people who made it happened were amateurs; and for the most part still are. Part 1 is entitled: IMPRESSING THEIR FRIENDS-They did it because they were geniuses; they did it because they were addicted to the mental challenge. But mostly they just invented personal computing to impress their friends. From the Homebrew Computer Club and the first PC—the Altair 8800—they went from being hobbyists to holding court to IBM. The video is more than an entertaining look at the PC industry. Part I: Impressing their Friends, documents how a bunch of high school and college “nerds” created the microcomputer, not as a means to great wealth, but simply as a hobby to impress their friends. Only Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft co-founders, Bill Gates and Paul Allen seemed to sense at this point in time the business potential at this early stage of the industry. The computer industry might not have taken off, if it were not for the Hippies. They caused the development of the PC industry. And in the “Homebrew Club”, a PC computer called Apple was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Apple had a shaky beginning, but Steve Jobs turned to venture capital for funding. The result...
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...1970’s to early 1980’s Bill Gates and one of his partners founded a computer company called Microsoft. With the innovation of Gates and co-founder Allen this company came be the biggest computer software company in the market. Despite almost losing their company because of violating the country’s monopoly laws their contribution to society was unmatched. Introducing these new operating systems to the public made it much easier for people in their everyday lives to do work on computers and no longer have to use typewriters; also they made it easier to be able to copy documents without having to use a mimeograph or carbon paper by using the MS- DOS system according to (Microsoft.com). Coming from a family of entrepreneurs and school teachers is what I believe sparked Gates creativity, in his personal environment he was surrounded by a lot of great minds which also could have contributed to his creativity. The problems and issues Gates and Allen innovative ideas set out to solve was to make life easier with using new computer systems to help work faster and get things done more efficiently, also with these new systems came new technology. The solution to these problems would be these new microcomputers these would help the public to do a wider array of things that they weren’t able to do on previous devices. The plan according to (Microsoft.com/history/billgates) was to get these “computers on every desktop and inside every home”. By doing so this allowed Gates to dominate the market...
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...companies and stakeholders and how corporate social responsibility has been accepted worldwide but it is not clear which companies or government companies behave in a social responsible manner. The relationship between companies and stakeholders is key ingredient in the success of any organisation. Making managerial decisions upon different circumstances is more difficult because the existence of different ethical approaches. A stakeholder is an individual or a group of individuals that affect or can be affected by corporate activity. Stakeholders are often loose grouping of factors that may be brought together and stirred into action by some specific circumstances as an example Shell and the kidnappings in Nigeria where militant groups have been kidnapping workers from oil companies in exchange of jobs. The key issue in this case is poverty and the lack of jobs in the region. Individuals who have been affected by this phenomenon created groups against the government policies and how the country is run. This stakeholder (militant groups) argue that the distribution of revenue from oil related activities is not fair, in the other hand the money made is been used to develop other part of the country while the area where the oil is exploited remains in poverty. Oil extraction activities are highly pollutant; it has affected the lives of fisherman and farmers. GlaxoSmithKline and Developing Country Access to Essential Medicines is a perfect example of how society is the most important...
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...Triumph of the Nerds was produced to inform the public of the development of the personal computer. By creating the personal computer, an industrial revolution was launched and it has changed every way in which we communicate, work, and spend our free time today. One key question associated with this video is “how did this revolution begin?” The answer is that the industry of personal computers began when a group of “nerds” pushed themselves to create something to impress their friends and all of those around them. The most important information provided here is the history and insight into the time it took to develop the personal computer. There were countless long hours and plenty of dedication involved in launching the PC. One of the main inferences/conclusions that I felt was presented in this video was that this type of work and industry are more of a “man’s” game. Considering that Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniack, Bill Gates and many others are immediately associated with the launch PC revolution, it is (to a degree) understandable that the producers of the film and many others in society automatically see this field as a “man’s world.” Since it was a handful of men that opened the door to this business, one can see why many individuals feel...
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...wealth, power or luxury. Greed has driven people throughout human history to achieve more and that is why humans have evolved from being cave beings to exploring space in a span that is almost non-existent when compared to the entire history of the world. The age old saying that the sky is the limit can now be deemed unacceptable in society as humans can now reach for the stars. This rapid change in society is due to bright individuals with intense desires. This world changing state of mind is more commonly known as greed. A majority of the world thinks that greed has a negative effect on society however, one must not...
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